U.S.S.R. Fourth. Finally. there is the case of Isai and Grigory Goldshtein and Elizabeta Bikova. who have been refused permission to emigrate. Isai and Grigory are both scientists. After they applied for permission to emigrate. their apartment was searched. documentsincluding a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rightswere confiscated. and Soviet officials charged them with slandering the Soviet Union. Gen. Alexi Nicolievitch Inauri. Chairman of the KGB of the Republic of Georgia. has jurisdiction over their emigration request. and has so far refused to grant them permission to leave. Grigory and Isai Goldshtein and Ellzabeta Bikova have written to Soviet President Podgorny explaining their reasons for giving up their Soviet citizenship and have sent a letter to U.N. Secretal General Kurt Waldheim appealing for help.
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